"It boggles my mind how people can stand on their beliefs that they were taught in church and conveniently ignore the words written in red, spoken by Jesus the Christ himself."
This is very easy to do...when you don't actually read the Bible. I would bet that less than 1 in 100 churchgoers who profess to be Christian, have read the Bible in its entirety even one time.
"All Scripture is God breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16-17)." All Scripture is God breathed but not all Scripture is God's speaking. Satan's speaking is recorded, and Job and his friends spent almost the whole book speaking what was not God's speaking at all. They had to repent and offer a sacrifice. Nevertheless, it's all there for our learning, to show us what is wrong, and how to make it right. This reveals God to us both what He is and what He is not. Don't despise the black. The same people who wrote down the red also wrote the black.
I was that guy. Then I took the challenge to read the Bible from cover to cover. I did so twice. When I read the Old Testament, I was shocked. From attending church, I had heard the Old Testament, I mean, verses, but when I read the Old Testament from beginning to end, God is NOT a nice old guy sitting in the clouds.
When you get down to it, the Old Testament is mankind's soap opera. Oh, the messes everyone got themselves into because they didn't listen to the Word of God. We're lucky that God didn't wipe us out before we made it to the New Testament.
"It boggles my mind how people can stand on their beliefs that they were taught in church and conveniently ignore the words written in red, spoken by Jesus the Christ himself."
This is very easy to do...when you don't actually read the Bible. I would bet that less than 1 in 100 churchgoers who profess to be Christian, have read the Bible in its entirety even one time.
"All Scripture is God breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16-17)." All Scripture is God breathed but not all Scripture is God's speaking. Satan's speaking is recorded, and Job and his friends spent almost the whole book speaking what was not God's speaking at all. They had to repent and offer a sacrifice. Nevertheless, it's all there for our learning, to show us what is wrong, and how to make it right. This reveals God to us both what He is and what He is not. Don't despise the black. The same people who wrote down the red also wrote the black.
I was that guy. Then I took the challenge to read the Bible from cover to cover. I did so twice. When I read the Old Testament, I was shocked. From attending church, I had heard the Old Testament, I mean, verses, but when I read the Old Testament from beginning to end, God is NOT a nice old guy sitting in the clouds.
When you get down to it, the Old Testament is mankind's soap opera. Oh, the messes everyone got themselves into because they didn't listen to the Word of God. We're lucky that God didn't wipe us out before we made it to the New Testament.
Good point, but have you ever wondered why God hasn't taken out Satan? I have. In fact, God and Satan make a little bet over Job. Weird no?